The key numbers in Mr Jaitley's Budget will be looked at closely to assess the extent of revisions they represent over what Mr Chidambaram had presented in February.
A summary of the budget speech of Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
Officials from 22 banks made representations before the minister and his panel about the industry expectations from the next financial budget.
A checklist that will help you save taxes in financial year 2013-14 which begins April 1, 2013 and ends March 31, 2014.
A decision by P Chidambaram in his last days as finance minister has annoyed the revenue department.
After kicking off the Budget exercise early this week, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday had a brain-storming session with Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on the state of the economy.
This will also give an impetus to the National Manufacturing Policy.
Vijay has a lot of young and middle-aged women fans, but as voters, they are possibly now with the DMK, or remain with the AIADMK. Recapturing this constituency would have helped Vijay's political launch and the GOAT script and dialogues could have gone a long way in helping out. But the kind of script and screenplay and the unusually and equally unnecessary long run-time (3 hours, 3 minutes) that GOAT offers takes the film experience over the heads of those that are not familiar with secret agents and uranium theft in Tamil cinema, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The outcome budget to be presented next week will discipline various ministries in their spending by ensuring that they do not stagger it towards the last quarter of fiscal.
Goyal's move was criticised by the Opposition saying with general election months away, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government had mandate only to present a vote on account and a Budget containing direct tax proposals.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday slashed excise duty on cars, SUVs and two-wheelers, and capital goods and consumer durables.
New Delhi plans to cut public spending by up to 10 percent in the fiscal year starting in April, officials involved in the budget preparations told Reuters last week, as Finance Minister P Chidambaram struggles to bring down the fiscal deficit to 4.8 percent of gross domestic product and stave off a credit rating downgrade.
On July 8, 2004, Finance Minister P Chidambaram will present the Union Budget for fiscal 2004-05. Take the Rediff Business Quiz and know how much you know about the budgets.
The various statements attributed to Chidambaram during his meetings with investors in Hong Kong and Singapore reveal a lot about the broad trend of ideas that would influence his next Budget.
In a pre-budget memorandum, submitted to the Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram, the US India Business Council said it was concerned over the several recent policy initiatives of the Indian government in this regard.
Broadly, one could assess the impact of the Budget on personal financial planning from two angles. Check them out.
All public sector bank branches will have an automated teller machine by March 31, 2014.
Finance minister read out parts of his speech to the media persons and television channels as nothing could be heard while he was replying to the debate on the Union Budget.
With the government deciding to recommend to the President to prorogue both Houses of Parliament, the Budget session is expected to begin on July 5.
The Union Budget 2007-08 seems like a mixed bag for individual taxpayers. The gain's not much.
India's new Finance Minister P Chidambaram has directed his ministry officials to be prepared to present the Union Budget on either July 2 or July 5.
The CAD in 2012-13 was at 4.7 per cent of GDP and in 2013-14 it will only 1.7 per cent, the Finance Minister said.
The three-month long Budget session of Parliament will commence on February 23 and the general budget would be presented by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on February 28.
The biggest focus area turned out to be 'investment'.
The minister learns from Europe's economic suicide, and pulls off a difficult balancing act.
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India would be doing away with different procedures and avenues for many categories.
That "Rollback Budget" ushered in an era of rollback.
The apex court observed that the government could not deny benefits to those who did not have not Aadhaar numbers.
The government on Monday said the fiscal deficit for the current financial year will be contained at 4.6 per cent of GDP.
As per practice a vote-on-account or approval for essential government spending for a limited period is taken in the election year and a full-fledged budget presented by the new government.
Although it is only going to be an interim budget this time, the Finance Ministry on Friday organised the ritual 'halwa' ceremony, which heralds the beginning of the quarantine for staff that will be associated with the preparation of the secret document.
'The finance minister has told the BJP's core voters we are hearing you and we are sensitive to your aspirations.'
The interim Budget has attempted to tick all the boxes that could help the Modi government return to power, reports Archis Mohan.
Stresses on need to boost investor sentiment through stable regulation.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the budget has attempted to clean up the tax regime and aims at spurring investment and implementing the goals outlined in government's National Common Minimum Programme.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has raised the funds for administration of justice to Rs 253.12 crore (Rs 2.53 billion), compared to Rs 108.20 crore (Rs 1.08 billion) in the last Budget.
